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uncontainable

ADJECTIVE

irrepressible

Synonyms

STRONGEST

boisterous buoyant ebullient exuberant rebellious uncontrollable unrestrained unstoppable

WEAK

bubbling bubbly enthusiastic inextinguishable insuppressible rhapsodical unconstrained unmanageable unquenchable unrestrainable unruly

Antonyms

STRONGEST

controllable restrained

WEAK

depressed despondent grave

ADJECTIVE

uncontrollable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fractious intractable irresistible lawless undisciplined unmanageable unruly violent

WEAK

beside oneself disorderly excited frantic freaked furious headstrong indocile indomitable insuppressible insurgent irrepressible like a loose cannon mad obdurate obstinate recalcitrant strong stubborn undisciplinable ungovernable unrestrainable

Antonyms

WEAK

controllable controlled manageable mild moderate

Example Sentences

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If you knew nothing of Cheever’s work, you might sit up in your chair with surprise at that sentence—for its eruption of uncontainable joy expressed via an almost comically surreal image.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The fires, which have been particularly uncontainable this year, only compound that discontent.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

By June, it was so big that it was uncontainable.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2023

Pali was a patchwork hybrid, an uncontainable advancement — an associative language model analog, built on the back of its symbolic-knowledge-model predecessor.

From Salon • May 21, 2023

I dropped my phone to the couch and tried to contain an uncontainable noise of glee.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

uncontainable

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